Pool patents to get COVID vaccines and drugs to all

Etienne BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR
Université de Lille, France.
Vianney DEQUIEDT
Scientific Director, FERDI
Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne,
Head of Training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development (IHEDD–FERDI)
Scientific and Technical Director, Labex IDGM+
Bruno VERSAEVEL
Emlyon Business School, France.

CategoryPublished papers
Published on24 March 2021
PublishersSpringer Nature

We call on pharmaceutical companies to contribute to a pool of patents set up by the World Health Organization (WHO). That will speed up the manufacture of generic, affordable COVID-19 vaccines and treatments while protecting firms’ incentives to invest in future research. The WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool has so far received no contributions from industry.

Cette note est citée dans le Rapport des offices parlementaires sur les aspects scientifiques et techniques de la lutte contre la pandémie de la Covid-19 déposé le 6 juillet 2021 au Sénat et à l'Assemblée nationale.

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Billette de Villemeur E., Dequiedt V., Versaevel B. (2021) Pool patents to get COVID vaccines and drugs to all, Nature, Letter to the Editor, vol. 591, p. 529.

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